【masculine】在多语言下的意思、翻译、词源、用法、例句

英语(English)

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替代形式(Alternative forms)

• m., m (abbreviation, grammar)

词源(Etymology)

From Middle English masculyne, masculyn, from Old French masculin, from Latin masculīnus, diminutive of masculus (“male, manly”), itself a diminutive of mās (“male”).

发音(Pronunciation)

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmæskjʊlɪn/, /ˈmæskjələn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈmæskjulɪn/, /ˈmæskjələn/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈmæskjələn/

• Audio (US)

形容词(Adjective)

masculine (comparative more masculine, superlative most masculine)

1. Of or pertaining to the male gender; manly.
2. Of or pertaining to the male sex; biologically male, not female.

   Synonym: male

   Antonyms: female, womanly

3. Belonging to males; typically used by males.

   “John”, “Paul”, and “Jake” are masculine names.

4. Having the qualities stereotypically associated with men: virile, aggressive, not effeminate.
   • 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the state of Europe during the Middle ages

     That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.

   • 1655, Thomas Fuller, Church-History of Britain

     […] a masculine church.

   Synonyms: manly, virile

   Antonyms: effeminate, emasculated, epicene, unmanly

5. (grammar) Of, pertaining or belonging to the male grammatical gender, in languages that have gender distinctions.
   1. (of a noun) Being of the masculine class, or grammatical gender, and inflected in that manner.

      The noun Student is masculine in German.

   2. (of some other parts of speech) Being inflected in agreement with the masculine noun.

      German uses the masculine form of the definite article, der, with Student.

   Coordinate terms: feminine, neuter

衍生词(Derived terms)

翻译(Translations)

名词(Noun)

masculine (plural masculines)

1. (grammar) The masculine gender.
   • 2009, Carlos Quiles, Fernando López-Menchero, A Grammar of Modern Indo-European, Second Edition:

     The masculine functions as the negative term in the opposition, i.e. when the gender is not defined, the masculine is used.

2. (grammar) A word of the masculine gender.
   • 1905, George Theodore Dippold, A German grammar for high schools and colleges:

     As to the class to which the masculines of the strong declension belong, we repeat that […]

3. That which is masculine.
   • 2004, Leonora Leet, The Universal Kabbalah:

     These forces would also seem to reflect the gender distinction that can be made with respect to the divine, the feminine associated with the divine as immanent within the finite and the masculine with the divine transcendence and the infinite.

4. (rare, possibly obsolete) A man.
   • 1868, The Ladies' Repository, A Universalist Monthly Magazine For The Home Circle. Volume XXXIX [39]‎^[1], page 458 (left column):

     I think women, at least those who do their own work, would live very simply in that respect, if there were none of the masculines to feed.

翻译(Translations)

变位词(Anagrams)

• calumnies, manicules, semuncial

French

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): /mas.ky.lin/

• Audio (Paris)

形容词(Adjective)

masculine

1. feminine singular of masculin

Latin

形容词(Adjective)

masculīne

1. vocative masculine singular of masculīnus

来源参考(References)

• masculine in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• masculine in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

Romanian

发音(Pronunciation)

• IPA^(key): [mas.kuˈli.ne]

形容词(Adjective)

masculine

1. feminine plural nominative of masculin
2. feminine plural accusative of masculin
3. neuter plural nominative of masculin
4. neuter plural accusative of masculin